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Public Sector Restructuring and Regional Development: The Impact of Compulsory Competitive Tendering in the UK

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  • Philip Pinch
  • Alan Patterson

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PINCH P. L. and PATTERSON A. (2000) Public sector restructuring and regional development: the impact of compulsory competitive tendering in the UK, Reg. Studies 34 , 265-275. This paper contributes to the analysis of contemporary public sector restructuring in the UK through an evaluation of the impact of the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) for the provision of local public services. Public services play an important stabilizing role in regional economic development but the introduction of CCT has undermined that role. Public service workers have suffered deteriorating levels of pay and conditions of service, and the capacity of local authorities to act to support local economic development has been reduced. Thus the introduction of CCT has undermined the contribution of local public services to the maintenance of interregional economic stability and to regional development. PINCH P. L. et PATTERSON A. (2000) La restructuration du secteur public et l'amenagement du territoire: l'impact de l'adjudication ouverte obligatoire au Royaume-Uni, Reg. Studies 34 , 265-275. A partir d'une evaluation de l'impact de l'introduction de l'adjudication ouverte obligatoire pour assurer les services publics locaux, cet article cherche a participer a l'analyse de la restructuration du secteur public en vigueur au Royaume-Uni. Les services publics jouent un role stabilisateur important dans le developpement economique regional. Toujours est-il que ce role a ete ebranle par l'introduction de l'adjudication ouverte obligatoire. Les niveaux des salaires et les conditions d'emploi de ceux qui assurent les services publics se sont deteriores, et la capacite des pouvoirs locaux a agir afin de soutenir le developpement economique local s'est affaiblie. Ainsi l'introduction de l'adjudication ouverte obligatoire a ebranle la participation des services publics locaux au maintien de la stabilite economique interregional et a l'amenagement du territoire. PINCH P. L. und PATTERSON A. (2000) Umstrukturierung des offentlichen Sektors und regionale Entwicklung: die Auswirkung obligatorischer, konkurrenzfahiger Angebote im Vereinigten Konigreich (UK) Reg. Studies 34 , 265-275. Dieser Aufsatz leistet einen Beitrag zur Analyse der gegenwartigen Umstrukturierung des offentlichen Sektors im UK mittels Bewertung der Auswirkung der Einfuhrung obligatorischer, konkurrenzfahiger Angebote (Compulsive Competitive Tendering = CCT) fur Versorgung durch die offentlichen Dienste am Orte. Offentliche Dienste spielen eine wichtige, stutzende Rolle bei der regionalwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, doch die Einfuhrung der CCT hat diese Rolle untergraben. Angestellte der offentlichen Dienste haben sinkende Lohne und schlechtere Arbeitsbedingungen hinnehmen mussen, und die Fahigkeit der Ortsverwaltung sich in Sachen der Unterstutzung ortlicher Wirtschaftsentwicklung zu betatigen, ist beeintrachtigt worden. So hat die Einfuhrung des CCT den Beitrag der ortlichen offentlichen Dienste zur Aufrechterhaltung uberregionaler Stabilitat der Wirtschaft und regionalen Entwicklung untergraben.

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  • Philip Pinch & Alan Patterson, 2000. "Public Sector Restructuring and Regional Development: The Impact of Compulsory Competitive Tendering in the UK," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 265-275.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:34:y:2000:i:3:p:265-275
    DOI: 10.1080/00343400050015104
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